...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....

28.11.12

[News] Sung Si-kyung, Park Hyo-shin to Warm Up Christmas with New Carol.

Korean balladeers Sung Si-kyung and Park Hyo-shin team up with their labelmates to celebrate upcoming Christmas with a special carol, the promoter Lune Communication said Wednesday.

The singers and male soloists Lee Seok-hoon, Seo In-guk and rookie boy band VIXX, who all belong to major music house Jellyfish Entertainment, are set to drop their joint carol titled “Because it's Christmas” early December under a seasonal project named HEART PROJECT.

“It would be some kind of evaluated version of an album with photo book. The exact releasing date would be revealed soon with more details and the record is slated to be dropped the next day of becoming available online,” a PR rep from Lune Communication explained.

Set to donate all the profits to needy people, the special project is going to be the best present for fans of the popular artists, the official added.

The firm revealed a short black-and-white clip featuring the singers in black suits on their official YouTube channel Wednesday morning.

Jellyfish Entertainment, which kicked off its music business in 2007, is one of the promising entertainment firms here with its unique artist line-up, specialized in ballad genre.